Word: redeemability
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Unsurprisingly, she is an incompetent adulteress. Her advances are rebuffed, except by the dentist, with whom she has an unsatisfying (and unprotected) sexual encounter. Suitably chastened, she seeks in an orgy of expiation to redeem herself by returning to the long-suffering Edward, who as further evidence of his perfection, takes her back. A rapturous reconciliation on his desk proves that faculty offices do have some charm...
...course, out of any desire to injure America. On the contrary, out of ! the deep desire to purify, to redeem America by making it an instrument of justice. The critics do not lack for patriotism. On the contrary, they sincerely wish to ennoble America with a foreign policy of altruism. And because only intervention devoid of self-interest is morally unimpeachable, it is the only kind that a good conscience can support...
...Gondoliers is that it improves significantly after the first 10 minutes. If you survive the excruciatingly slow painful beginning without running, screaming, out of the Agassiz you will be rewarded with the entertaining performances of the several accomplished leads. But all the talent in the world doesn't quite redeem a production marked mostly by its slow pace and stale direction. The funnier moments of the Gilbert and Sullivan operates do shine through the dreariness but it is depressing to see such a fine cast wasted...
...facts are known, has Clinton asked for such a whopping increase in Head Start funds -- and an as yet unspecified bump in Chapter 1 money as well? "Think of it as a promissory note," says Galston. "The President has made a commitment. The question now is how to redeem it in the best possible way." Galston is right, of course, and so is Clinton when he says, "A solid, comprehensive ((education)) program could do about as much to break the cycle and the mentality of dependence and poverty . . . as anything else we could...
...Dallas Cowboys' quest to redeem themselves actually qualifies as full- blown resurrection. When owner Jerry Jones bought the team in 1989 and fired coaching legend Tom Landry in favor of Johnson, some Texans were ready to run Jones and Johnson all the way to the Arkansas border. And when Johnson posted a woeful 1-15 record in his rookie season, hanging was held to be too humane a fate for the interlopers...